Keir and Prison Danger

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

4.6 • 252 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The New Statesman’s Freddie Hayward joins the Inside Briefing team to reflect on Keir Starmer’s busy first week as prime minister, with the PM appointing new ministers, the government firing off press releases and policy announcements, and Rachel Reeves making her first big speech as chancellor. But Starmer is also facing his first difficult decision: how to deal with a major crisis in prisons. England and Wales are on the brink of running out of cells... Hannah White presents, with Emma Norris, Tom Pope and Cassia Rowland. Produced by Candice McKenzie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:13.7	I'm Hannah White.
0:15.2	So as we all know, and apologies for wheeling out a cliche quite so early in the podcast,
0:20.1	but a week is a long time
0:21.6	in politics and in the course of the last seven days, everything has changed.
0:26.1	We have a new government, new ministers, a new shadow cabinet, new peers, a new parliament,
0:30.8	new seating arrangements in parliament, new appointments in number 10, new departmental names,
0:35.9	and new plans for planning, you get the idea.
0:38.5	Kirstarmer's first week as Prime Minister has been a busy one, with the government firing
0:42.4	of press releases and policy announcements, and both the PM and the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves,
0:47.4	giving speeches and facing the press. But there are also plenty of familiar headaches waiting
0:52.5	in the wings, not least a major crisis
0:55.0	in prisons. We'll come to that later. We've got lots to discuss. Joining me throughout are the
1:00.9	IFG's Deputy Director Emma Norris. Hi Emma. Hi. Hi. And the IFG's Deputy Chief Economist, Tom Pope. Hi, Tom.
1:07.8	Hi, Hannah. And I am delighted to be joined for his inside briefing debut by the new statesman's political correspondent, Freddie Hayward. Hi, Tom. Hi, Hannah. And I am delighted to be joined for his inside briefing debut by the
1:12.2	new statesman's political correspondent, Freddie Hayward. Hi, Freddie. Hello, how are we doing?
1:16.1	Very well. Thank you. Okay, it has been an exciting week, but also a slightly strange week.
1:21.4	Freddie, how have you found the first days of the new era? It's been strange. I think I watched Liz Trust, Rishiscienek and Boris Johnson
1:28.3	give speeches in Downing Street and I can say, Kirstarmes felt like the most historic, the least
1:33.3	frivolous, definitely. I don't think there have been that many surprises. We've spoken about
1:39.1	what they're going to do in government for two years now. Labor have been very clear that
1:42.8	they weren't going to have huge surprises in the manifesto. Their whole strategy joined the general election was to reassure the public,
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